Six players currently ranked in the WTA top 100 are teenagers. They range in age from 18 to 19, spread across six different countries, and include the sixth and ninth best players in the world.
The comparison with the ATP is immediate: the men’s tour has two teenagers in the top 100 — R. Jodar of Spain (rank 23) and J. Fonseca of Brazil (rank 25), both 19. The WTA has three times as many, and two of them sit inside the top 10.
The six
| Rank | Player | Country | DOB | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | M. Andreeva | Russia | 29 Apr 2007 | 19 |
| 9 | V. Mboko | Canada | 26 Aug 2006 | 19 |
| 19 | I. Jovic | United States | 6 Dec 2007 | 18 |
| 47 | T. Valentova | Czech Republic | 20 Feb 2007 | 19 |
| 86 | L. Tagger | Austria | 17 Feb 2008 | 18 |
| 96 | A. Korneeva | Russia | 23 Jun 2007 | 18 |
Four of the six were born in 2007. Andreeva, Valentova, Jovic, and Korneeva are all 18 or 19, their careers beginning in the same birth year. They are collectively the most significant emerging cohort in women’s tennis.
Mirra Andreeva: ranked 6th at 19
Andreeva first entered the WTA top 100 in July 2023, when she was 16. At the time she was one of the youngest players ever to reach that mark. She is now ranked 6th in the world — higher than any other teenager in the current top 100 — and has held a top-10 ranking for over a year.
Her game is built on heavy topspin groundstrokes from the baseline, a style that has produced results primarily on clay and hard courts. She is Russian-born and Russian-trained. Her rise has been steep: from outside the top 100 in early 2023 to the current world No.6 in just over three years of senior competition.
Victoria Mboko: from outside the top 100 to world No.9
Victoria Mboko is Canadian, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and first broke into the top 100 in June 2025 at the age of 18. She is now ranked 9th in the world — a rise that has come quickly enough that her full ranking trajectory is still being established.
At 19, she is the oldest of the six teenagers and the closest to leaving the group behind. She turns 20 in August 2026.
Iga Jovic: ranked 19th at 18
Iga Jovic is American, born in December 2007, and currently ranked 19th in the world at 18 years old. She is the youngest of the top-three teenagers in the current rankings and the only one who will not turn 19 until later this year.
The 2007 birth year
Of the six teenagers, four were born in 2007:
- M. Andreeva — 29 April 2007
- T. Valentova — 20 February 2007
- A. Korneeva — 23 June 2007
- I. Jovic — 6 December 2007
The concentration of talent from a single birth year is unusual. Four players from the same year are currently ranked inside the WTA top 100, with the highest of them at No.6. This is not a statistical fluke but a cohort — a group who grew up and developed their games at the same time, likely competing against each other at junior level before arriving on the senior tour simultaneously.
Historical context
The WTA has not always limited teenage participation. In the mid-2000s, the tour had no minimum age restrictions, and the result was a high volume of very young players in professional competition. In 2007 and 2008, the number of teenagers in the WTA top 100 at any given week reached 21 to 23.
The WTA introduced age eligibility restrictions in 2023, capping the number of professional events that younger players can enter. The six teenagers currently in the top 100 have reached those rankings under a more restricted regime than the cohorts of the mid-2000s. Their presence is not a return to the era of mass teenage competition — the rules prevent that — but a natural wave of talent emerging within the constraints that now exist.
What this generation shares
Six countries, six different playing styles, six career trajectories still largely ahead of them. What they share is timing: they are all breaking through at the same point in the WTA cycle, when the established generation — Swiatek (25), Gauff (22), Osaka (28) — is still active and the veterans are beginning to decline.
Whether any of the six develops into a consistent top-five player over the next decade is, at this stage, genuinely open. Andreeva’s ranking at 19 is the strongest evidence that at least one of them can. What the data confirms right now is that six players born between 2006 and 2008 have already made the WTA top 100 — and three of them were born in the same year.
All data from the Baseline Rank database, updated weekly from official WTA rankings. Access full historical rankings via the Baseline Rank API.